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Commentary  © 2007  Richard J. Chandler & Bonnett Chandler

Bonnett & Richard Chandler

Here are some love quotes for Valentine’s Day. Bonnett and I wish you the sweetest of days today! May your love for your mates, partners, family members, friends and associates continue to grow and deepen. May your hearts, and ours, open further to encompass the whole of humanity.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. 

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 

- Albert Einstein

Trip over love, you can get up.  Fall in love and you fall forever. 

- Author Unknown

kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

- e.e. cummings

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be. 

- Robert Browning

I've fallen in love many times... always with you. 

- Author Unknown

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. 

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. 

- Latin Proverb

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. 

- Mignon McLaughlin

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. 

- Swedish Proverb

Love is being stupid together. 

- Paul Valery

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. 

- Pablo Picasso

Love is metaphysical gravity. 

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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John Locke

John Locke, a writer, philosopher, political theorist and activist and medical doctor and researcher, was one of the most influential figures in modern western civilization.
 
His gravestone contains the following epitaph: “Near this place lies John Locke. If you ask what kind of a man he was, he answers that he lived content with his own small fortune. Bred a scholar, he made his learning subservient only to the cause of truth. This you will learn from his writings, which will show you everything else concerning him, with greater truth, than the suspect praises of an epitaph. His virtues, indeed, if he had any, were too little for him to propose as matter of praise to himself, or as an example to you. Let his vices be buried with him. Of good life, you have an example in the gospel, should you desire it; of vice, would there were none for you; of mortality, surely you have one here and everywhere, and may you learn from it. That he was born on the 29th of August in the year of our Lord 1632, and that he died on the 28th of October in the year of our Lord 1704, this tablet, which itself will soon perish, is a record.”

“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.”

“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”

“We are like chameleons; we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”

“What worries you, masters you.”

“It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”

“An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.”

          

“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.”

“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have”

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

“Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.”

“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.”

- John Locke (1632 - 1704)

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Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby, who in addition to receiving eight honorary degrees, with all but one being doctorate degrees, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he grew up, and earned his Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1972 and his (Ed.D.) Doctorate in Education in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts. His dissertation had the rather unique title of: An Integration of the Visual Media via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning.

He wasn’t always so committed to education. Due to working a great deal early in the morning before school as well as after school in the afternoons and evenings to help support his family combined with too much joking around in class, Cosby failed the 10th grade.  He apprenticed with a shoe repair business then enlisted in the Navy for four years where he worked as a Hospital Corpsman doing physical therapy for Korean War Vets. After the service, he completed his high school equivalency through correspondence courses then won a track scholarship to Temple University. He left after his sophomore year to pursue a career in comedy and returned to complete his degree after a number of successful years performing and producing his comedy routines as LP’s. He continued with his successful comedy and acting career as well as excelling in higher education as noted above. More recently, he is known for his strong advocacy for education and a strong work ethic as the prescription for achievement.

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.”

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.”

              

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”

“No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”

“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”

- Bill Cosby  (1937- )

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Leonardo DiCaprio

In recent years Leonardo DiCaprio, an extraordinarily skilled, prolific and commercially successful actor, has focused time and resources on raising awareness for the plight of environmental destruction, and our role in reversing the long-term damage to planet earth.

“Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other… they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.”

- Leonardo DiCaprio (1974- )

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Author of 14 books, Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an eloquent writer as well as a famous aviator. She and her husband, Charles Lindbergh, contributed greatly to aviation earning her the ‘Hubbard Medal’ by the National Geographic Society and the ‘Aerospace Explorer Award’ by the ‘Women In Aerospace’ organization. Her books, diaries and poetry span themes of travel, aviation, environmental issues and political perspectives.

“The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.”

“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

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The German poet, Rilke, is one of the world’s greatest 20th century poets.  A famous work of prose, from which this quote was taken, is the hauntingly beautiful, Letters to a Young Poet.

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke  (1875-1926)

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One of France’s most accomplished actresses, Jeanne Moreau is also a talented director and screenwriter.  She has maintained friendships with such notables as Henry Miller, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet.

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

 - Jeanne Moreau  (1928- )

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Sting, an English musician who has also enjoyed a long-lasting second marraige, gives us this insightful quote...

“I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.”

- Sting  (1951- )

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R. D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist whot wrote extensively on mental illness.

“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”

- R.D. Laing  (1927-1989)

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Carl Jung, famed Swiss psychiatrist, was innovative in his work in a number of arenas, including acknowledging those aspects of one’s psyche that are often avoided as well as his exploration of using dreams to better understand hidden aspects of the self.

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

- Carl Jung   (1875-1961)

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Andy Rooney, humorist and fairly cantankerous commentator for the CBS news program ’60 Minutes’ speaks gently about love.  Three quotes from Rooney.

“I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.”

“I've learned ... that when you're in love, it shows.”

“I've learned ... that a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.”

- Andy Rooney  (1919- )

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A quote from the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu, whose name literally means ‘old master’. Here are two quotes from the ‘Tao Te Ching’.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

- Lao Tsu  (6th Century B.C.)

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From Erich Fromm, the deeply influential psychological and philosophical writer, teacher and practicing psychologist…

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?”

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

- Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

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